Operasionele navorsing: model en interdissiplinariteit
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Inaugural lecture--Department of Statistics, Rand Afrikaans University, 5 June 1975@@Analysis of the activities of the wartime operational researchers suggests that three interacting components created the methodology to which much of their success can be ascribed. The systems approach to problem solving emphasised the necessity for clear, exact problem formulation. The use of mathematical techniques to model the problem being studied, enabled them to experiment with alternative solutions. Although the problems which confronted them, came from well outside their disciplinary boundaries, their interdisciplinary, and most important, formally scientific approach enabled them to succeed in solving the socia-technical problems. Different viewpoints regarding the content of the word "interdisciplinary" are discussed, and the view is put forward that although having a specialist knowledge of a specific field is valuable in an interdisciplinary context, being a good scientist in general is essential. It is stressed that in order to solve the problems confronting mankind, the lessons learned from these operational researchers cannot be ignored.
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2009-03-31
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1975-06-05
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University of Johannesburg
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Operations research: model and interdisciplinarity